“Powerful, beautiful, and haunting. Every time I read The Subsidiary, it feels both timeless and painfully, undeniably contemporary.” —Alejandro Zambra In the subsidiary offices of a major corporation, the power suddenly goes out: the lights switch off; the doors lock; the phone lines go dead. The employees are trapped in total darkness with only cryptic, intermittent announcements over the loud speaker, instructing all personnel to remain at their work stations until further notice. Terrified, one lone worker uses the implements on his desk to give testimony to the horrors that occur during the days he spends trapped in the building, testimony told exclusively --- and hauntingly --- through the stamps he uses to mark corporate documents. Hand-designed by the author with a stamp set he bought in an bookstore in Santiago, Matías Celedón's The Subsidiary is both an exquisite object and a chilling avant-garde tale from one of Chile's rising literary stars.

The Subsidiary

Literature & Fiction

Celedón, Matías

United States

Melville House

"Santos y Laura han reconstruido sus vidas siguiendo la caravana que cada año llega al valle para los carnavales. Entre remolques, jaulas y escombros, su historia va borrando los contornos de un sueño en el que conviven, a la deriva, existencias con un secreto ominoso. Buscanidos, tercer libro de Matías Celedón, es una historia de amor entre huérfanos en un paisaje agreste y desolado, espejo de un orfanato dirigido por un sacerdote que asegura haber resucitado a una niña milagrosa. Buscanidos confirma la vocación de Celedón por tensar las formas de la novela: la prosa se expande, se contrae y alcanza un brillo que hace creer que hemos abandonado la oscuridad que subyace a todas las relaciones. Es la ilusión que alimenta a la literatura"

Buscanidos (Spanish Edition)

Literary

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